Associate Professor
Dhammika Jayalath

Biography

• Optimum Resource Allocation
• Massive MIMO Systems
• Internet of Things
• Optimum Resource Allocations
• Physical Layer Security
• Cooperative communications and Cognitive radio
• Multi-carrier communications
• Vehicular communications
• Cross layer optimisation in wireless systems
• Communications theory.

• 2023: Defense CRC Project with an industry partner offering a $45k/year scholarship to create a lightweight programable solution for communications ($158k)
• 2022: Future Waveforms Study (FWS) for Tactical Communications, Australian Department of Defense
• 2020: iMOVE Project grant: Pilot project (a member of the research team) V2B safety interactions using 4G mobile devices (AU $90 K)
• 2019: Commercial Project grant - Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES)- (AU $25 K)
• 2018: QUT - Large Equipment Grant to purchase Software Defined Radio Platform for teaching and Research (AU$25 K)
• 2015: QUT School of EECS on Localized wireless hotspot for physical layer security (AU$20 K)
• 2014: QUT-Teaching and Learning grant (a member of the team), to develop a text enriched concept inventory for student assessments (AU $20 K).
• 2008: QUT Teaching and Learning grant, to develop interactive problem database for digital communications unit (AU $2 K).
• 2008: QUT ECARD Grant - $15,000, Vice-Chancellor's earlier Career Academic Recruitment and Development Grant (AU $15 K).
• 2006: ARC Special e-research Grant - Chief Investigator, Title: Collection, Sharing, Visualisation and Analysis of locally gathered information from geographically remote areas vulnerable to tidal waves. This grant is administered by the University of Melbourne (Prof. Saman Halgamuge) (AU $90 K).
• 2005: ARC discovery grant - First Named Chief Investigator, Title: Design and analysis of optimum space time-frequency codes for multi-rate OFDM systems with funding of $150 000 over three years starting in 2005. This grant is administered by the Australian National University (AU $150 K).

• 2007 : Early Career Academic Recruitment and Development (ECARD) award from QUT
• 2000: IEEE travel grant, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
• 2000: Postgraduate travel grant, Monash University, Australia.
• 1999 - 2002: Departmental scholarship for tuition fee, CSSE Monash university, Australia.
• 1999 - 2002: Monash Graduate Scholarship (MGS), Monash University, Australia.
• 1997 - 1998: Finland Government Scholarship -MEng, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand.
• 1986: Best achievements award - Physics - Ananda College Colombo, Sri Lanka.

• 2024 - Present: Associate Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics, Science and Engineering Faculty, QUT.
• 2007 - 2024: Senior Lecturer, School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics, Science and Engineering Faculty, QUT.
• 2003 - 2007: Senior Researcher, Wireless Signal Processing, National ICT Australia Ltd, Canberra Research Laboratory (Researcher until January 2007).
• 2002 - 2007: Fellow, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, School of Advanced Studies, Australian National University (Research Fellow until January 2007).
• 1999 - 2002: Research Assistant, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand.
• 1996 - 1997: Engineer Operations, Satellite Earth Station, Sri Lanka Telecom Ltd., Padukka, Sri Lanka.
• 1995 - 1996: Engineer customer services, Sri Lanka Telecom Ltd., Head Quarters, Lotus Road, Sri Lanka.
• 1995 - 1996: Demonstrator, The Open University of Sri Lanka, Nawala Nugegoda, Sri Lanka.
• 1994 - 1995: Teaching Assistant, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.